Every Monday this summer I have worked in the Headquaters building of the ministry. This Monday was the first after I finished my first project. I was outside doing landscaping work and preventing leaks from the windows. All of the windows were orginally sealed and caulked from the outside. That proved to be a problem because when water gets in, the outside caulk prevented the water from escaping and going back outside, thereby causing it to go inside and leak all over. I had to remove all of the outside caulk. It took a lot of scraping and cutting with razors and box cutters. Then when I finished that job I drilled three "Weep Holes" into each window. Drilling into metal and concrete was difficult on the drill bits. It was a difficult task, but I really enjoyed being outside and working with my hands.

This Monday I worked IN the office. I was assigned some projects to work on. I sorted through boxes of old cassette tapes that contained talks/messages/sermons/worship services from DiscipleMaker's past (before the days of digital recording). For the 341 tapes I found I then sought reasearch to see if we could ship them to a company that would be able to convert them into mp3 format for us. It was fun doing online research and making phone calls and typing up a report with recommendations It was like "real work."

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Hello, I am Jason Knox

I'm going to Seminary for lots of bad reasons. I have good reasons too and now I'm trying to live a life of putting aside the bad ones, really pursuing the good ones, and being open to surprises. It's been a strange journey to get me to this point. I think what I've realized is that I actually do have certain life goals: 1) To fall deeper in love with Christ and 2) help Christians understand Christianity better (namely by allowing them to fall more madly in love with Christ too). In light of that, I've decided to come up with some career goals that are quite similar to my life goals (makes the list easier to remember). That's why I'm going to seminary. I'm taking steps to be a pastor of a church. I'm at Covenant Theological Seminary because what I want is to say with Paul, "For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified" and I have become convinced that Covenant is an institution that is committed to not only knowing about Christ but just actually KNOWING Christ. More than anything the best way to combat all of the bad reasons I have for going to seminary is to encounter and embrace Jesus. I want to be in a place surrounded by the people who wrote to me in a letter saying, "The education of our students is far more than a merely academic exercise--it is our ministry to you and to those whom you will serve in Christ's Church. Our goal is to walk with you--not only through your seminary years, but also well beyond--so that, by God's grace and for His glory, you may faithfully fulfill the ministry to which He is calling you." I'm so excited.

I'm (still) learning to be more open with people and offering of myself. This blog is a step in that direction (like a band-aid on a missing limb).